The Wait For It Podcast

A three-hour live bonus stream boiled down to the good stuff: we rank our 2025 movie slate, defend the wild choices, and celebrate the films that stayed in our heads long after the credits. Two hosts. 50+ fresh titles. A lot of laughter, a few rants, and a surprising amount of agreement where it counts.

• Goals hit and missed on Letterboxd totals
• What we skipped in theaters and why we regret it
• Rating philosoph...

We unpack the Claire Obscur award reversal, the messy line between tools and authorship, and what “indie” really means when budgets, teams, and outsourcing blur the edges. Then we reflect on My Hero Academia’s impact and John Cena’s farewell, trading favorite arcs, rivalries, and why communal hype still matters. We wrap it up with a rapid fire Discord round up of topics from the entire month!

• Why the Indie Game Awards re...

What if you could draft the perfect Christmas morning from your childhood? We took that question live on Twitch and turned it into a full-contact holiday special—no bracket, all chaos. This holiday special turns into a nostalgic draft of consoles, toys, and deep-cut 90s/early 2000s memories, complete with horse races to set the order and crown the winner. 

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We map out 2026 across TV, anime, movies, and games with Kory from The World Is My Burrito, weighing returning favorites, new bets, and what might slip. Highs from 2025 awards, honest MCU worries, indie game love, and big‑event plans round it out.

• Apple TV+ standouts with Shrinking and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters returning
• Anime sequels vs new bets, from Freiren to Ghost In The Shell
• 2026 film slate: Supergir...

Awards season hits different when the culture won’t sit still. We spent 2025 swimming through surprise debuts, comeback stories, and one film that hijacked playlists worldwide—and we’ve got the receipts. From a trio of songs that refused to leave our On Repeat, to a sleeper TV hit that turned hospital halls into a pressure cooker, to games that actually respected your time, this annual ceremony is the map to what mattered.

This year...

We revisit Rise of the Guardians to ask why a box office underperformer became a cult favorite, weighing its heartfelt Jack Frost arc against pacing dips, design quirks, and a thin villain while celebrating standout voice work and underused mythology. A cozy, honest review with spirited rankings, playful chaos, and a new idea we can’t stop thinking about.

• The hook of a holiday Avengers team-up
• Jack Frost’s arc as t...

We dig into November’s biggest shifts across gaming and pop culture, from Valve’s living-room Steam device to Call of Duty’s stumble, Funko’s slide, and a surprising anime controversy. Laughs, hot takes, and a Thanksgiving trivia showdown round out the ride.

• Valve’s living-room Steam machine as a console disruptor
• Pricing realities, SteamOS strategy, and ecosystem lock-in
• Where PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo...

We look back on Fortnite’s rise from 2017 obsession to cultural platform, and we explain why our “Game Room Where It Happens” series ends on this chapter. The conversation explores wins, burnout, evolving tastes, and how streaming has changed our approach to play.

• Early days of Battle Royale and learning to build
• The thrill of first wins and nightly squad runs
• Crossovers that reshaped the game’s identity
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We take a frank look at The Roses, a sharp, dark-tinged romance that turns a dream house into a proxy war for pride, ambition, and resentment. Chemistry carries the story, while tone shifts, pacing, and a volatile finale spark debate about how far the satire should go.

• Modern reimagining of War of the Roses
• Lead performances that mix bite with vulnerability
• Dark comedy balanced with uneasy dinner-party tensio...

We dive into the Predator universe through Prey and find a lean, authentic thriller that restores menace to the monster while spotlighting a compelling Comanche lead. We weigh practical effects against wobbly CGI, praise the setting and representation, and debate pacing, violence, and franchise future.

• Casting a primarily Native team and Comanche language option
• Amber Midthunder’s grounded lead performance and char...

This month, we welcome back Sophie, aka Soupninjaha, and for the first time, Blythe Milligan, host of the Everything is Logistics Podcast and one-half of the brain behind Jax Podcasters United. 

We stack Universal’s Epic Universe against Disney’s current strategy and ask what families actually value: price, polish, and memory-making. Then we follow the money from bloated blockbusters to horror’s lean machine, and explore h...

We map out how Infinity Con is reshaping the local con experience into a seven-world universe, built for creators, families, gamers, and horror fans. David shares the vision, the headaches behind the scenes, and the bold plan for themed gateways that make the show feel like a living story.

• Why Infinity Con centers creation over celebrity
• The seven worlds: Forge, Isle of Wonder, Abyss, New Renaissance, Limitless, My...

To wrap up Patreon Month on the penultimate episode of The Game Room Where IT Happens series, we dive into The Wolf Among Us and unpack why its neon-soaked noir, sharp performances, and moral gray choices still hit. We praise the style, debate the story’s middle stretch and cliffhanger, and compare our most chaotic Bigby moments with brutal honesty.

• Gritty noir style and neon-soaked aesthetic
• Voice acting that elev...

The droids are rolling by, the armor is gleaming in 85-degree heat, and the smiles are real—welcome to a con-floor anthology of craft, fandom, and the small moments that make a creative life feel big. We bounce from table to table at Ocala Comic Con with a stacked roster: Katiee Sackhoff (0:15) on carrying Bo-Katan from animation to live action, Griffin Burns (5:30) on Demon Slayer’s blockbuster wave, Nika Futterman (9:42) on why “...

For our next request during Patreon Month, we pull apart Battle Royale’s cult status with fresh eyes—what still works, what hasn’t aged well, and why its influence keeps echoing through movies and games. We weigh shock against substance, highlight standout characters, and debate whether minimal worldbuilding helps or hurts its punch.

• Why Battle Royale’s premise still provokes
• Influence on Hunger Games, Squid Game, ...

To kick off Patreon month, we visit Alien (1979) with fresh eyes and honest takes, weighing its slow-burn craft, Ripley’s legacy, and how practical effects still make fear feel real. We compare it to Aliens, examine themes of corporate control and body horror, and share where it lands in our running rankings.

• Pacing as a deliberate tension engine
• Ripley’s competence and the final girl lens
• Xenomorph design an...

A fallen indie wrestler enters a haunted house to drink away his life and discovers his real main event—battling a sentient home that feeds on lost souls and reclaiming his own. Adam Lawson walks us through the art, the heart, and the Kickstarter built for collectors.

• Mad Dog Morgan’s premise of wrestling colliding with a haunted house
• Themes of failure, addiction, and redemption driving the narrative
• Why hor...

We welcome artists Lalaine ArtGeek and Ivan Patch to break down September's biggest pop culture moments and anticipate what's coming in 2026.

• Nioh 3 announced for February 2026, continuing the samurai vs yokai Souls-like action RPG series
• James Gunn reveals Superman and Lex Luthor will team up in "Man of Tomorrow" against a greater threat, releasing July 2027
• Dana Terrace's "Knig...

Donald Guzzi shares his journey from audio engineering student to voice actor and director, revealing how persistence and seizing unexpected opportunities transformed his career over eleven years in the industry.

• Started in audio engineering at SAE Institute with plans to work in live sound before discovering a passion for post-production
• Worked as a quality control engineer at a dubbing studio before spending six ...